Students unravel AI tendency for sycophancy

T2Covered by 1 source · first reported by Phys.org / ScienceDaily (tech) at 03 Nov, 12:20 UTC

Generative AI was so agreeable with users that it could be persuaded to repeat outlandish claims like the Earth is flat. The programming's sycophancy was so strong that it didn't take much pushback to get chatbots and digital assistants to repeat obvious falsehoods, according to University of…